Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-05
THE HAWkEYE STATE MILITIA
An Efficient Organization With a
Splendid Record.
MEN OF soLDlERLY BEARING
What the Coming Term of the Sus
prcmc Court viii Have Before
Ii - Prohibition Papers
Becoming Frantic.
lOMn'S Hold Nlilisll.

Iowa's Bold Milish.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Dee. 4.-lSpc 'al to tn Q
BEE Tho Iowa National guard has had a
good standing in military circles for years
| But its efficiency and sodierly bearing has
| been much increased by the favorable report
| just made public of the army officer who Of
| ticially inspected it last summer. There arc
two brigade of three regiments each in tho
| Iowa militia The first brigade held its an
nual cncampmcnt last summer at Ottumwa,
| the second brigade at Waverly. The war de-
| partmcnt detailed Acting Inspector Mason,
| of the regular army, to inspect the Iowa
| troops, and he performed his work with
| great thoroughness and with great benefit to
| the militia. In his official report now pub
| lishcd he compliments the Iowa troops very
| highly in some respects, while crltcising
| them sharply in others. He was impressed
with the fine personnel of the men, and ho
| thinks they show the stuff of which good
| soldiers made In their willingness to
| discharge their duties and the intelligent
| character of their work he found much to
| compliment. He thinks they are somewhat
| deficient in discipline, and especially in
! mounting guard he thinks they act as
| if they believed it were only show
! and not as if they expected at any moment to
| be surprised by the enemy. So in the inter-
| course between officers and men he thinks
| there should not be so many famliarities as
| there arc now, and that more respect should
| be paid to the officers rank, if none is felt
| for the man himself But, on the whole, he
| gives the Iowa guard II very good certificate,
| and frankly admits that its condition was far
| better than he had supposed. In closing he
| makes the following suggestion, which is
| quite applicable to the national guard in
| other states as in Iowa: II am satisfied it
| would be of material benefit to the service
and to the national guard if from time TO
| time Il battalion of regular infantry was re-
! quired to take part in their encampments.
| Preferably the battalion should come from
| some regimental headquarters, and be accom-
| panied by the adiutant and band, in order
| that the ceremonies might be conducted IN
| full form and with close attention to details.
The cordial feeling existing between the ma
| tional guard and the service would be i'll
| creased by bringing them together"
| DECEMBER SUPREME COURT.
| The December term of the supreme court
will begin grinding out its quarterly grist
next Tuesday. There are 2ll cases assigned
for hearing at this term, distributed by dis
tricts as follows: Eight from the first dis
| trict, fourteen from the second, sixteen from
| the third, for two days december q and y,
| nineteen from the fourth district, six from
the fifth district, thirteen from the SIXTH
% December s. and lU1, seven Mr. from a the tenth
| district twenty-five from the eleventh. ten
from the twelfth district, seven from the
thirteenth district, (for three days, December
! IL, IL, and 49, twelve from the fourteenth
district. twenty-six from the fifteenth dis
trict, five from the sixteenth, (for three days,
December 10, IL and 10, eight from the
seventeenth district, thirteen from the
eighteenth district, thirteen from the ninth
district, Gor three days, December 10, 20
| and d2D.
! EXCHANGE OF GuBERNATORIAL MESSAGES.
| The annual message of the governor Of
| South Carolina has been received by Gov
crnor Larrabec, ION exchange as newspa-
pcrs would say. In many material respects
the state would naturally be compared with
Iowa, and the showing is not very creditable
TO the Bourbon domain. In public school
matters South Carolina is so far behind Iowa
as to be hardly worthy of mention the same
day. 1t is way down in the percentage of
iltcracy, while Iowa leads the column with
the least. The public debt of South Carolina
is, in round numbers, Sii,4OO. 600, or about
SG,o00,OOo more than that of Iowa. The float
ing debt of this state, as shown by the last
report of the treasurer, is but little over
100000 with II prospect of its entire extin-
guishmcnt by july 1883. The comparison Of
these two states, the one under straight re-
publican, and the other under Bourbon dem
ocratic rule is u very suggestive political
| commentary.
FRANTIC PROHIBITION PAPERS.
The extreme prohibition papers of the
: state are working themselves up into con-
, | siderable frenzy over scheme for state
| constabulary to enforce the law Not satis-
| fled with seeing its successful workings in
| ninety out Of the ninety nine counties in the
| state, they want to resort to the most ex-
| trcme measures to compel the other nine to
, | obey it. The idea of "A state constabulary is
: | very offensive TO the great majority of people
1 | in Iowa. They say that so long as there is
| the most complete legal machinery now pro-
J | vidcd for enforcing the law it is worse than
| folly to talk about rcsorting to bayonets to
l compel people to obey. Any such policy
would do more to kill prohibition than any
| thing else that could be proposed. There
F. are thousands of republicans in the state who
| are not prohibitionlsts in principle, but are
| willing to give the law Il fair trial by the
t ordinary methods of legal enforcement. But
=. | accepting il as they do. under protest, they
never would consent to have tho
most violent measures of force
| rule employed to displace the
I | usual processes Of the courts state con-
; stabulary to take away from each city its local
self government, would be as obnoxious as
England's persistent refusal to grant Ireland
G "hOmc rule" The people of one city don't
1 want officers sent in from another to enforce
d | their laws and govern them. Prohibition has
C already cut the republican majority in Iowa
s | down nearly to extinction, and if the cranks
D are to be allowed TO have their way it will be
a wiped out completely. There is no doubt that
e | somebody will attempt to force II state con-
= stabulary mti-hOmc rule bill through tho
+ coming legislaturc-but it isn't possible that
D the sobcr-mindcd, lcvcl-headed republicans
4 who control it will let them do il.
+ THE DIES MONIES ART LEAGUE.
o There has recently been organized in this
: | city an art league which is expected to do
o | great things for art interests in Des Mones.
Q 1t gathers together the leading artists in the
9 | city into a sort of protective union where
they can exchange ideas, compare work, and
study to advance their mutual interests.
From time TO time they will have exhibitions
S | of their paintings and other art work, some
, | what after the style of the French salon. IL
is expected in this way 10 stimulate interest
I in art, and educate the public taste and APP
: probation for the best things in art matters.
Another Haymarkct Hatching.
! CmICAGo, Dec. 4.-The committee Of ar
. | rangements for the entertainment to be given
. next Saturday night for the benefit Of the
1 families of the dead and imprisoned anar-
3 chists to-day, decided, Notwithstanding